The late neogene 87Sr/86Sr record of lowland himalayan rivers

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5320, 1997, Pages 1828-1831

  Quade, Jay ^a   Roe, Lois ^a   DeCelles, Peter G ^a   Ojha, Tank P ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; LIMESTONE;

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LIMESTONE; NEOGENE; RIVER WATER; STRONTIUM;

ARTICLE; FOSSIL; INDIA; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WEATHER;

ASIA, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0030810742     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5320.1828     Document Type: Article

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33. We thank J. Cater, R. Adams, and D. Schelling for discussions, samples, and unpublished sedimentological data from the Panir section; LASMO Oil Pakistan Ltd. and the Director General of Petroleum Concessions for provision of samples and permission to publish data from the Panir section; the Department of Soil Conservation in Babar Mahal, Kathmandu; and C. France-Lanord and L. Derry for discussions and access to unpublished data. The early stages of this research were supported and encouraged by M. McCulloch and A. Chivas at Australian National University. This project was primarily funded by NSF grant EAR-9418207.